[Pw_forum] heat of formation for Mg3N2
Stefano Baroni
baroni at sissa.it
Thu Aug 24 08:49:37 CEST 2006
All's well that ends well. Still, the discrepancy between your calcs
and Dmol3's seems still a bit too large ...
Stefano
On Aug 24, 2006, at 7:00 AM, Xiangmei Duan wrote:
>
> Dear Stefano,
>
> I found the problem about the heat of formation for Mg3N2, which
> came from the bulk Mg. The binding energy I got 4.95/2 eV is too
> large comparing to other LDA calc. (~1.76-1.78 eV) and expt. vealus
> (1.51 eV).
> My lattice parameter c is too large !!! - not fully optimized !
>
> Now the binding energy for Mg bulk is 1.79 eV, and the heat of
> formation for Mg3N2 is -4.97 eV.
>
> Sorry for my carelessness,
> Best wishes,
> Xiangmei
>
>
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